Recipe For Kifli Dough

HUNGARIAN KIFFLES

Steps:

• Beat butter and cream cheese in the bowl of a stand mixer until pale yellow and creamy. Gradually add 2 cups flour to butter mixture until the dough is too thick for the mixer. Stir remaining 2 cups flour into the butter mixture by hand and knead until dough falls off hands easily. Roll dough into a ball, place in bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and chill in the refrigerator for 8 hours or overnight.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Stir walnuts and sugar together in a bowl. Pour milk into walnut mixture and stir to form a paste.
• Turn dough onto a floured work surface and roll to desired thickness. Cut dough into 2-inch squares. Place about 1 teaspoon walnut filling in the center of each square. Roll the dough from 1 corner to the other corner around the walnut filling and transfer to a baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until light brown, 10 to 15 minutes.

KIFLI RECIPE

Steps:

• 1. Take a large bowl and add yeast, sugar, and water, stir, and let it stay for 10-15 minutes. 2. In a separate bowl, add the flour, make a hole in the middle, and fill it with milk, yogurt, eggs, oil, and salt. 3. Add the yeast mixture from step 1 to the flour mixture and mix it well. 4. Start kneading the dough (it shouldn't be too sticky nor too dry). If you want to, you can use a stand mixer with a dough hook. 5. Spray some cooking spray and sprinkle some flour in your mixing bowl, move the dough there, cover it and keep it aside. 6. Make small cuts in the crust and keep it aside for 20-30 minutes. 7. Add some shredded feta cheese to a bowl and keep it aside for later. 8. Turn on your oven to 200˚C (400˚F). 9. Sprinkle some flour on your work surface and fold the dough on all sides. 10. Divide the dough into half and cut both halves into three equal pieces. Fold the pieces into balls before rolling them. 11. Take the first ball and roll it out into a medium-sized circle. 12. Cut the ball into 2-3 equal pieces, add 1 tbsp of cheese in the middle of every piece, and close the first kifla by pulling together the widest parts of the dough and tucking them inwards. 13. Repeat the process as many times as needed and add some baking sheets to your pan before placing the kifli inside the oven. 14. In the meantime, mix together 1 or 2 beaten eggs and water until the mixture combines. 14. After 7-8 minutes of baking at 200˚C (400˚F) before glazing the kifli with a mix of beaten eggs and water. 15. Bake for 10 more minutes and sprinkle some sesame seeds before turning the heat off (in the end, the kifli should have a golden-brown color). 16. Serve it with some yogurt, ajvar, or a dish of your choice, and enjoy!

HUNGARIAN KIFLI II

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, cream butter and cream cheese. Stir in the egg yolks and vanilla. Stir together the flour and baking powder. Add the flour mixture a little at a time until it is fully incorporated. Divide dough into 5 parts, wrap in plastic, and refrigerate overnight.
• in a medium bowl, beat egg whites to soft peaks, add sugar a little at a time while continuing to beat to stiff peaks. Fold in ground walnuts, and set aside. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough out to 1/4 to 1/8 inch thickness. Cut into 3 inch squares, place 1/2 teaspoon of filling in the center of each square and roll up from corner to corner. Place on cookie sheets and refrigerate until hardened.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Bake cookies for 10 to 12 minutes, until lightly browned. Roll in confectioners' sugar when cool.

EASY SOUR CREAM KIFLI

Steps:

• For dough:.
• Cut butter into flour.
• Mix egg yolks with sour cream and add to flour mix.
• Mix well.
• Divide dough into 6 or 8 parts.
• Flatten each into small patty shape.
• Wrap each patty in plastic wrap and chill at least 6 hours or overnight.
• For filling:.
• Combine nuts, sugars, and lemon rind and set aside.
• Beat egg whites a little with a fork and set aside.
• To assemble:.
• Remove one patty at a time from fridge and roll out on a floured board to a 9" circle.
• Now smear some egg white over the circle of dough.
• Sprinkle about 2 tablespoons of sugar/nut mixture over that.
• Cut into 12 pie-shaped wedges.
• Roll up, curve into crescent shape, dip tops in egg whites, then in nut mixture and arrange on prepared cookie sheets.
• Repeat with balance of dough.
• Bake at 350 degrees F. for 15 to 20 minutes.
• Makes 72, 96, or more, depending on how many times you divide the dough.

VANILLA KIFLI -- A VANILLA COOKIE (HUNGARY)

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter & granulated sugar, then beat in the egg yolks & vanilla extract, before gradually beating in the flour.
• Form the dough into a ball & let it stand at room temperature for 2 hours.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• To form the crescents, roll about 1 tablespoon of the dough in the palms of your hands, continuing to roll & form a rope about 3 inches long & 1/2 inch thick. Bend the rope to form a crescent, then repeat with the remaining dough, while placing the crescents on ungreased cookie sheets about 1 inch apart.
• Bake about 10-12 minutes (Cookies will STILL be white in color.), then let them cool on the cookie sheets for 5 minutes to prevent breaking.
• While cookies are still warm, carefully roll each one in vanilla sugar, before letting them cool completely.
• In a double boiler, melt chocolate over low heat, & when cookies are cool, dip one tip of each cookie into the melted chocolate, then set on waxed paper to dry.